Them quickly. As we come back out live the best buy is going to be open until 1 00 tonight. Hes close to close, i wont be open all night long. They will open again in the morning. The clouds will continue in years past. Folks buy things like the laptops here that are being discounted for hundreds of dollars on thanksgiving day. For black friday, even though its thursday. Reporting live inside to the best buy in alexandria. Im tom roussey. Abc7 a sur praising number of stores open today. Grocery stores stayed open until late in afternoon for cooks that needed lastminute items. Big lot and camart have been open all day long. For the stores tonight with the hours head to wjla. Com. What can people going out tonight expect for the weather . Meteorologist brian van de graaff has the rest of the forecast. Brian its not bad. Get out and walk. Walk to the outlet malls outdoors. A lot of the places are not enclosed but temperatures are in the 40s this evening. Probably 30s in burbs but not a ni
They lost nearly everything they own where the home they are renting caught fire. It they both made it out safely but it is a long road ahead to recovery. Charisse leclairs live with how they are coping now. Cherise i can tell you this is one Close Knit Community areas while we were covering this story today neighbors were giving the couple who lives here emotional support. The sad news in all of this, but cap of the couple the really a total loss here at their home on haverhill road. Breaking the windows, tearing the walls down. This morning, to watch it all come down, inconceivable. Cherise fire moved through this home quickly thursday morning. The renter and his wife have lived here for 10 years. The couples only daughter says hospital for smoke inhalation, is expected to be ok. Im grateful my family is all right. That is what matters. Everything i ever owned, everything ive ever had. Its going to take some time. Cherise her father stayed on the scene watching the nearly 10 Fire Dep
Smoke is also the same thing another Early Morning witness noticed as he was driving down highway 13. I seen the flames coming out the side door so then i whipped around to go to the Grocery Store to tell somebody so brian, the store owner, is a firefighter and he was running out the door fire crews stopped using water for a time for fear of spreading the flammable material around more. But the fire continued to spread until an aerial a foam to smother the flames. One nearby trucking business had semi trailers and even grain trucks parked no more than 50 feet away from the buildings that went up in flames. An employee saw the flames. And drove all the vehicles to safety. We moved our tanker trailer that sits down there. Went and hooked that up. And it was getting a bit warm. But we got it out of there. The owner later discovered just how partially melted from the heat. As for the firefighter who had the reported medical issue, that report did not indicate whether there was a connection
Been chilly and snow on the ground. Today temperatures were around 40 degrees. So close to where we should be this time of year. It was a nice quiet date with no rain or snow. Tonight there is a weak disturbance moving across eastern iowa and as you can see there is a band of rain and snow mixed that is trying to work its way to the central part of our viewing area. Were not expecting this to last but there could be a brief period of snow as it comes by. Right now fire investigators are trying to figure out what caused a massive fire in central city this morning. It happened at recycling business on iehl street. Fox 28 news anchor matt hammilljoins us live from central city. Matt . A thanksgiving no one will forget as explosions rocked the town early this morning. As you can see behind us still some hot spots smouldering ad lib but also a feeling this could have been so much worse. Nats fire witnesses saw flames soar into the air and responding fire teams could see the smoke ten miles
Anybody here in central city planned to spend a quiet thanksgiving. I want to move out of the way and show you what is going on. We still have hot spots, still have flareups at the site. A huge explosion, about 8 00 this morning. We are finding out that crews got here and discovered that there were flames shooting into the air. Right now as we said, some hotspots and utility crews still here working on all of this. Being very careful about all of it. People living there by told us they heard a huge blast and several others, then flames shot into the air. Smoke could be seen for at least 5 miles. No reports of any people injured in the explosions. One firefighter did have to be rushed to the hospital for medical issues. One neighbor says she never imagined Something Like this could happen so close to home. Very scary. We were standing at the back door when some of the explosions were going off and you could feel the heat standing way over here. It is crazy, very scary. I had a major pan